Tsunami Messages

From: Ecuador

Comrade: we express our grief and solidarity with the peoples
of the south of India and other countries for the grave natural disaster they
have suffered these last days. We hope for the rapid recuperation of the injured
survivors and that the peoples of south-east Asia continue to advance in their
search for peace and happiness.

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, 2nd January 2005

From: France:

We want to express our deepest solidarity with the victims of
the terrible tsunami that hit your country and the whole zone. The innumerable
acts of solidarity of the people of all these countries have saved a lot of
lives. They contrast totally with the indecent gesticulations of the authorities
of the imperialist countries, firstly interested in securing ‘their’ citizens.
The debt, mechanism of imperialist plundering and domination, the prohibition of
producing the ‘generic’ drugs, urgently needed today, the exclusive dependence
on the tourist industry controlled by the international monopolies, aggravate
considerably the consequences of this natural catastrophe.

We totally support the demand of total cancellation of the
debt.

We condemn the WTA that prohibits the production of generic
drugs.

We denounce the selective policy of ‘relief’ of the
imperialist powers.

La Forge, central organ of the Workers’ Communist Party
of France.

December 2004.

From: Italy:

Dear comrades,

We express to you, on our behalf and on that of the Italian
working class, our deep sorrow for the thousands of Indian men, women and
children who were victims of the terrible catastrophe of the last days. This
disaster was made worse by the non-prevention and the non-alarm and by all the
faults of a system like the capitalist one, not based on the respect for nature
and human beings but on the pursuit of profit. We will take part in the
initiatives of help and militant solidarity which are being organised in Italy
for the affected population. Fraternal greetings.

As the devastating consequences of the Tsunami disaster are
becoming clear, the peoples all over the world are showing their sympathy and
solidarity towards the peoples of South Asia. When the first shock over the
tragedy fades, the peoples will be asking why it was not possible to issue a
warning to the threatened shores hours in advance, in a world surveyed in detail
by US and other satellites and with geological and seismologic stations placed
everywhere.

Facts are already showing that the knowledge was available,
but that no warning was issued in fear of jeopardizing the tourist industry! No
other socio-economic system than imperialism, capitalism of today, would be
profit-minded enough to take such a cynical stand and such a, literally
speaking, calculated risk. Abolishing imperialism will not abolish natural
perils, but it will certainly minimize their devastating effects on manhood.